Above me is a link to a small picture album I’ve made for HSI. Today is the last day on HSI 😦 But, today I was given some reflective questions.

What are the top 5 lessons you will remember from this class? I remember the MTV lesson and how they portray teenagers, I remeber the YouTube, creating the audio files, doing the interviews, and the trip to the mountians

What are the top 5 lessons you will remember from your sciences/math class? I remeber the trip to the supercomputer, the first day of meeting everyone, and when we began to create things in Kitely.

How do you think you’ve grown as a person from coming to HSI? Have you become more outgoing and friendly? Have you conquered any fears? Have you learned to be more independent? I feel like I’ll listen to people more, before this sometimes I would just stop listening to people sometimes but that hasn’t happened that much at HSI. I feel like I am mor independent.

How do you think HSI prepared you for college life and your future career path? I showed what college life is like. I put me in a new situation that is like college, I can find my way around the campus, and easily make friends.

If you could re-live HSI, what would you do differently? I wouldn’t do anything differnetly.

What will you tell your friends and family back home about HSI? You know that question is just waiting for you back home… I’ll tell them how fun it was and rfor my friends who didn’t apply, what they missed out on. I’ll answer any questions that they have.

Today for my class we watched part of a documentary about multitasking with electronics. In the video I saw that almost everyone multitasks, but a study showed that people who think that they’re good at multitasking are actually bad at it. Their has been very little studys done on multitasking or how todays technology affects people.

How about when you’re outside of school; do you multitask with media? I multitask with media outside of school, but now that I have seen that video on how it can adversely affect you I’m going to try to use it less and multitask less.

Do you think you’re effective at multitasking? Why or why not? I don’t think I am because everything seems harder when I’m trying to do multiple things at once, since I try to spread my attention across everything that I’m doing.

After watching this clip, do you anticipate multitasking in the future during school? Why or why not? I already don’t multitask in school and I don’t plan on starting to multitask.

What are the implications or consequences of multitasking with digital media? Do you see problems for society or for yourself? Some problems that will happen with multitasking are that people won’t be able to concentrate on one thing causing other areas to suffer, I think that people won’t be able to function without it because many people who have it are overstimulated and with out multitasking they are under stimulated which isn’t any better.

To my class watched the video above about the MTV stereotypes: the mook and midriff. The mook is a guy who seeks attention and will do anything for it and use the way they act to get it, while the midriff are girls who seek attention and use their bodies to get it. I think that people still at like the mooks and midriffs you can find characters that act like them in many movies, tv shows, and you can find people who act like them in real life. For example Miley Cyrus shows off here body in many music videos she does to get people attention. The mooks and midriffs were created by MTV but many people still want to act that way.

MTV has changed from play music to playing tv show nobody watches. they changed it because it’s probably harder to just play music videos because someone could just get on YouTube and watch any video they want to, while on tv people don’t have a choice, they watch whats on the channel. I think that MTV needs to change what they show, instead of showing TV shows that are only about the stereotypical teen, they need to have decent shows on it.

The NFL, not the National Football League, the real one the National Forensics League. This the National Speech and Debate Leagues. Collin is in Speech and Debate and currently is in three events: Policy, Student Congress, and Extemp.

Collin is currently participating in Policy Debate, which in policy Collin says, “You talk really fast about real world issues like nuclear war, which is a common topic in the event.” At first Collin never considered to be in policy, “I wanted to be in humor originally, but I showed up of practice and my coach signed me up.” says Collin. He has never left the event since that first practice.

Student Congress is a mock congress, in which people will write, reasearch and debate bills in the round. “I made a bill about um… oh.. judicial refunding in Mexico and I’m having another bill about the doctor shortage to get more doctors taught so we don’t have to worry about healthcare.” He said. Collin wasn’t exactly planning on doing congress, “I had a debate parter who went crazy, and um… and so… I didn’t have a partner for a while, and my coach decided to put me in congress. I was pretty good at it, and liked it a lot.” said Collin in these exact words.

Collins final event that he does is Extemporaneous Speaking were you are given a choice on three topics, you choose one and you’re given 30 minutes to prepare for that speech, after that prep time you give a 5-7 minute speech. Collin told me, “I was required to do a second event and my coach thought I’d be good at it.”

Extempually interesting.

-Collin

Collin has been in Speech and Debate since his freshmen year, he first joined policy debate, followed by extemp, ending up with him joining congress. He’s a great debater and has no place to quit doing speech. Collin is planning in using his debating skills in his future career of politics.

The average female is 5’4 and 165 lbs, yet the average female model is 5’10 and 120 lbs.

The average male is 5’9 and 195 lbs, yet the average male model is at least 6’0 and weighs about 175 lbs.

The Media tries to make normal people feel insecure and imperfect by showing people that society views as perfect and what they want to be, all to make money.

Above is how the media says women should look. thin, tall, and well perfect. But, in reality no one looks like that not even the models. All the models are air brushed to take out any “imperfections” they try to say you have to look like that or you’re not good enough, I think it’s sad that some people believe it. Like wise they do the same think for men, they say you have to be tall and muscular. But again not that isn’t how normal people are. This is a big problem because it puts people down and causes people to change to try to fit the image of perfection.

I think unrepresentative media are a big problem for society: it puts people down who don’t fall into what they look like, it makes people change to fit the image of perfection, and it teaches people to not accept or be happy with themselves.

Media images affects all people by making them think that’s how they should look and if they don’t look like that, that they aren’t good enough.

This problem need to be fixed. I think that if these magezines would stop air burshing the models and let the public see how they actually look it will help to solve or minimize the problem. They could also have avaerage looking people be used as models and not the tall, thin, or muscular ones, but someone who’s looks like the normal American. The media needs to teach people to accept who you are, I’ve always been told to do that but many of the media sources says to accept who you are, unless you don’t look perfect.

Last friday I had an interview in my multimedia class, it felt easy to be able to be interviewed and to be the one giving the interview.
The best part of the interview was that I was able to answer the questions without my mind going blank on any of them since usually when I’ll go blank on some of them. The worst part of it was that I was concisely coughing. But, from this experience I was able to create good questions and learn how to use an audio recording device. I think interviewing skills will be improtant in the future because when you go to apply for a job you need to be interviewed. It will help you to be able to talk to people, along with many other things.